You are here

Oral history interview with Jerome Long [session 1], 2012 April 17

/islandora/object/ohp%3A6/datastream/OBJ/view

In this series of three interviews, Jerome Long discusses topics including: his childhood in Little Rock, Arkansas; attending Dunbar Junior college (1951) and Knox College (1956); attending University of Chicago (BD, MA, PhD); living through segregation; service in the United States Army during the Korean War; studying religion and philosophy; Civil Rights movement; earning his PhD and working with Mircea Eliade as his advisor; teaching at Western Michigan University; Kent State shootings; teaching in the Religion department at Wesleyan (starting in 1970); living in Middletown; involvement in local churches; work on NAACP Education Committee; courses taught at Wesleyan; teaching with the Socratic Method; student and faculty support of Wesleyan's divestment from South Africa; work on the divestiture committee; involvement in the African American Institute (which became The Center for African American Studies); lack of faculty of color in the Natural Sciences division.